Q. I have come across damn small linux which is about 60mb. Is there any other distro even smaller than this, which can be installed on a pen drive.
@joe - yes exactly! that can be done, but I don't want to remove stuff manually , I am hoping someone has already done such a thing...
I just need the dd tool..
@joe - yes exactly! that can be done, but I don't want to remove stuff manually , I am hoping someone has already done such a thing...
I just need the dd tool..
A. I don't think there's anything much smaller than can do anything useful. You might want to check Distrowatch, and fo through the list of distros there. They provide detailed information on all available distros.
Actually, you could go really small yourself. Leave the kernel, a shell, the /etc directory and a handful of file system tools, and that's all you need. You wouldn't be able to do too much with it, but there it is.
You could also go bare naked by not installing a window manager or GUI. Just running a command-line system will give you pretty much all the essentials without the overhead of the graphical shell.
Actually, you could go really small yourself. Leave the kernel, a shell, the /etc directory and a handful of file system tools, and that's all you need. You wouldn't be able to do too much with it, but there it is.
You could also go bare naked by not installing a window manager or GUI. Just running a command-line system will give you pretty much all the essentials without the overhead of the graphical shell.
Can you use a pen drive as extra RAM in Linux.?
Q. I have an old machine running suse Linux. But sometimes when the memory usage goes high, it seem to hang for ever. Since its a bit old, the harddisk is also not that fast causing swap access to be very slow. Is there any way to use a flash drive as an extended RAM to speed it up a bit?
A. yes you can, but only as swap space,
if you are continuously using swap space then its time to add more physical ram,
or
use a lighter desktop like xfce instead of gnome (or kde if you have it),
switch off compiz,
use iceweasel instead of firefox,
all these will free up ram
if you are continuously using swap space then its time to add more physical ram,
or
use a lighter desktop like xfce instead of gnome (or kde if you have it),
switch off compiz,
use iceweasel instead of firefox,
all these will free up ram
Does Linux automatically mount usb pen drives and other USB media devices like mp3 players / psp?
Q.
A. It depends on the version. Ubuntu does.
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